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...product of this collaboration helmed by director Pete Docter and executive director John Lasseter (the respective comedic visionary and honorary Oscar-winner behind both sensational Toy Stories) is a hilarious expose of boogeymen and other things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, animated with classic Disney style mixed with the best of Tim Burton. It’s Beauty and the Beast meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a quirky film that features first-class entertainment...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The (Un)usual Suspects | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...recurring girlfriend who has a voice and personality like Audrey in Little Shop Of Horrors and hair like Medusa. The offbeat animators at Pixar have cleverly inserted many more references into Monsters, Inc., which devoted (and even not-so-devoted) movie buffs will be able to recognize. Toy Story nostalgics will cheer at elements of the Toy Story 2 airport scenes—absolutely no one can make animated chase sequences as comically exciting and inventive as Lasseter and Co., who also manage to pay tribute to Disney movies galore. This distinctive combination of whimsy and wit defines a distinctive...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The (Un)usual Suspects | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...next giant leap for toonkind came from this revitalized Disney powerhouse, in conjunction with the upstart tech wizards at Pixar. In 1995 the animators dropped their pencils and turned exclusively to their computer screens, creating the first completely computer-animated feature, Toy Story. Just as they had in 1937, audiences were exposed to something stunningly unlike anything they had ever seen and, once again, they loved it, and threw their money at it. Filmmakers outside the Disney machine now realized that they could no longer afford to ignore the money-making potential of animation...

Author: By Benjamin W. Olsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Animation Evolves in Linklater's Waking Life | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...Laden if he tried to slip into Pakistan. "Of course," he laughed. "It would be a great service. That way, there would be no fighting between America and the Afghans." On the road back to Quetta, we pass a Koranic school where kids have constructed a row of toy antiaircraft guns to take shots at imaginary U.S. warplanes flying out of the desert sunset. I hope the border guard gets lucky: it might allow those schoolkids to grow up without training their sights on real U.S. fighter jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting Games | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...Name is Rar Rar were costumed in white clothes and angel wings, except for the vocalist, who sported red galoshes, a short, white and red sequined drum majorette costume, a grandmotherly white wig, and huge smears of make up across her face. What appeared to be a cheap plastic toy megaphone in her hands soon made its powers known, as it emitted an awful, shrieking distortion of her voice. All of the band’s frantic, manic energy seemed to be channeled into her, as she dove or dizzingly spun into the audience on several occasions...

Author: By Erik Beach, Cassandra Cummings, and Emma Firestone, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: OUT AND ABOUT | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

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